Communications When Encountering Aggressive Communication Systems

1. A method operable within a wireless access point (WAP) for improving communications when encountering aggressive communications, comprising: establishing a link between a first user equipment (UE) and the wireless access point in a first unlicensed network via a contention based mode that directs the WAP to share radio frequency spectrum with other WAPs; querying at least the first UE to determine aggressive radio frequency (RF) band activity by a second unlicensed communication system in range of the WAP; determining that the aggressive RF band activity by the second unlicensed communication system is interferinq with communication between the first UE and the WAP; based on the determination, directing the WAP to switch to a contention free mode to communicate with the first UE in contention free mode; and directing the UEs to report back the number of one or more UEs in vicinity of the WAP and the second unlicensed communication system.

2. A method operable within a wireless access point (WAP) for improving communications when encountering aggressive communications, comprising: establishing a link between a first user equipment (UE) and the wireless access point in a first unlicensed network via a contention based mode that directs the WAP to share radio frequency spectrum with other WAPs; querying at least the first UE to determine aggressive radio frequency (RF) band activity by a second unlicensed communication system in range of the WAP; determining that the aggressive RF band activity by the second unlicensed communication system is interfering with communication between the first UE and the WAP; based on the determination, directinq the WAP to switch to a contention free mode to communicate with the first UE in contention free mode; and detecting a 3GPP protocol related capability of a UE when the UE attempts to connect to the WAP; and determining the number of one or more UEs in vicinity of the WAP and the second unlicensed communication system.

3. A method operable within a wireless access point (WAP) for improving communications when encounterinq aggressive communications, comprising: establishing a link between a first user equipment (UE) and the wireless access point in a first unlicensed network via a contention based mode that directs the WAP to share radio frequency spectrum with other WAPs; querying at least the first UE to determine aggressive radio frequency (RF) band activity by a second unlicensed communication system in range of the WAP; determining that the aggressive RF band activity by the second unlicensed communication system is interferinq with communication between the first UE and the WAP; based on the determination, directinq the WAP to switch to a contention free mode to communicate with the first UE in contention free mode; directing the UE to operate in the contention free mode in response to switching to the contention free mode; and altering an unused bit in a MAC header to direct the UE to operate in the contention free mode.